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Evidence indicates they were alsoused on the Arco brand engines beginning near that same time. When were Wicomagneto systems first used on Hercules engines? According to Jaegerengine literature, they were first fitted with the Wico EK magnetobeginning on March 1st, 1923. When it comes to Hercules engines, there aresometimes more questions than there are answers.

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Until next time, keep your plugs clean and your igniter oiled.Ĭontact Joe Maurer at 797 S. Otherwise, we’ll just give you the shipping details. I can send high- or low-resolution photo copies on e-mail. My computer has heavy duty protection and sometimes I don’t get e-mail and people don’t receive them. I’m not always sure if e-mail got through, so be sure to send your phone number as well. If you send me an e-mail and don’t get an answer, please call. The money will be used to maintain and copy the Stover records.

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We ask only for a free will donation made out to the Stephenson County Antique Engine Club. If you’d like us to look up your serial number, we’d be happy to. According to the records, the same engine was shipped to three different places on three different dates in two different years! Looking closely at the record, it appears that the engine may have been returned twice, and each time it was shipped, the line above and below the original ship date was filled in! The latest date said it went to San Francisco. Wrong! The 4 HP was no problem but the 2 HP was a whole “nuther” ball game.

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Lorain Forbush, his long time friend and mentor, has an early 2 HP upright Type AO, serial number 5935. Bob has an upright 4 HP, serial number YB 25729. This engine ran as good as it looked.īob Jones of Fallon, Nev., called wanting information on two Stovers. You can put a row of the same model of Stover engines together and they will all have something different. There’s one thing about Stover – when you think you know how they did it, you’ll find they didn’t. It still uses the Webster magneto that had an aluminum body by this time. The hopper looks more like the one used on the earlier Type V 1 HP engine. But of special interest is the hopper it doesn’t have the typical flanged lip around the top. It’s a very late K model that uses the single-weight governor system as used in the very early K’s. I personally like engines in this condition. The engine is almost 100 percent original with the original decal and paint. This is a very interesting engine for several reasons. John’s other Stover is a 1-1/2 HP Type K (serial number K144855) shipped to Welsch & Lacey at Mayville, Wis., Sept. John has put a ton of work into this engine and it now runs and looks good. John’s 8 HP (serial number 25859) was shipped to the Badger Machinery Co.

Showing the engines with the shipping records puts history in perspective. John has a couple of fine Stovers as seen in the photographs. We ran into John Drumm of Manitowoc, Wis., at Plainfield and Baraboo this summer – two good Wisconsin engine shows. However, they are going to either have other engine information in the picture or have a very long skinny frame. People want to frame their record, which sounds like a really neat thing to do. By the time I get the whole line photographed, I also have about 1/3 of the page. Each engine is typically on one line in the book. From 1903 to 1911, the books are fairly small. The bad news is we get a lot of extra information in each photo. The good news is we can get a clear picture of the information on the page. I have a digital camera with macro and super macro (close-up capability), so I took the camera on the next trip to the records. We hadn’t really thought about it but in this modern digital age it was worth looking into. It turns out that some folks would like a reproduction of the record that shows their engine. In the past, shipping information was copied from the book with no effort made to visually reproduce the actual record. People have a real interest in when and where their engines were shipped. There were a few technical questions, but most of the queries were aimed at the shipping records. This is our second installment of Stover Stuff and there has been a lot of response to the department. The high price of fuel didn’t seem to hurt attendance, and the quality and variety of engines just seems to get better and better. We had good weather, fine friends and good shows. Well, 2008 was a great year for engine shows.